Archive for the 'Twitter' Category
Question – What uses Twitter, google Earth and Google Docs?
Answer: A 21st Century primary school class.
From the ‘ICT in my Classroom’ blog (Web Link).
Another example of early school use of technology to enhance their learning. In this examples it’s science – specifically looking at how day length varies across the UK and the differences around the world.
Google Earth was used to illustrate the movement [...]
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Twitter in teaching and learning part 3
Okay third and final part.
Darren Rowse lists 9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers. He started off using Twitter to: improve the quality of his blogs * network with other bloggers *widen his readership * grow his profile and drive traffic to his blogs.
He lists 9 benefits, most of which are marketing oriented but nevertheless can [...]
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Twitter in teaching and learning part 2
Storytelling: Tom is also participating in the @ManyVoices Project (here). Basically this is an ongoing collaborative story being written by 140 different school students across the globe. Each student uses Twitter to write part of the story keeping to the 140 character limit. Once the student has finished their bit another student continues the tale. [...]
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Twitter in teaching and learning part 1
Okay so this post started out as a bit of a summary of Twitter (check it out here and the Wikipedia definition here) in terms of classroom use. I’m new to Twitter so it’s essentially a compilation of other peoples experiences / observations, (most of these were found through ‘Around edublogs twittering’ found here). Essentially [...]
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Academic use of Twitter
From academHAck (Web Link).
Twitter again. It seems to becoming quite popular. For info Twitter is a social networking (aka micro-blogging) service that allows users to send “updates” (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service or instant messaging. The act of doing this is called ‘Twittering’ and when [...]
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Finally an educational use for Twitter?
Twitter is a social networking service that allows users to send updates (”tweets”) to the Twitter website, via instant messaging. the updates are in the form of a text-based post which has 140 characters limit.
The sender can restrict delivery of the updates to specific individuals and so can be used for [...]
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Twittervision and Flickrvision
So what do people make these then? Flickrvision and Twittervision.
As Mark Oehlert here “part of me feels like I’m watching the pulse of the Web…”.
Basically what we have here is an animated mashup of Google earth and blogging technology (Twittervision) and Flickr photos (Flickrvision).
Twittervision shows real-time geographic visualization of blog entries on a social network. [...]
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